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ABC denies archival access
Arts Hub
Thursday, August 28, 2008 (Australia)
On Tuesday 26 August 2008, Arts Hub received a press release from Anne Bentley, Administration Officer at the Australian Directors Guild, protesting restrictions imposed by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation upon two independent film producers wishing to access the broadcaster’s archives. The statement is reproduced here in full.

Adelaide Queer Film Festival
Arts Hub
Thursday, August 28, 2008 (Australia)
The inaugural Adelaide Queer Film Festival has been launched and will open at the Mercury Cinema on Friday 5 September.

RWS/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition winner announced
Arts Hub
Thursday, August 28, 2008 (United Kingdom)
Jennifer McRae has been selected as this years RWS/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition winner, with her watercolour ‘David by the window, Spencer’s Belle Vue’.

Kounter Kulture launches at London Art Week
Arts Hub
Thursday, August 28, 2008 (United Kingdom)
An edgy and exciting new art fair is set to burst onto London’s arts scene this October.

Gormley returns to Guernsey
Arts Hub
Thursday, August 28, 2008 (United Kingdom)
Award-winning artist Antony Gormley will visit Guernsey’s Castle Cornet in late September for a conference examining ‘Art and Islands in Today’s Global Economy’.

EAC Over 60s Art Awards
Arts Hub
Thursday, August 28, 2008 (United Kingdom)
The EAC Over 60s Art Awards has attracted an outstanding quality of entries from a cross section of older people throughout the UK.

Damoah to spark more controversy with her art
Arts Hub
Thursday, August 28, 2008 (United Kingdom)
Adelaide Damoah, best known for her 2006 exhibition, ‘Black Brits’, will unveil her latest exhibition entitled ‘Supermodels’ this coming October.

A Muppet A to Z
The Age
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 (Australia)
The Jim Henson retrospective at ACMI next month is part of a renewed fascination with all things Muppet.

Glory days of gory tales
The Age
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 (Australia)
Our schlock-horror Ozploitation movies are rediscovered.

Records, but art market still twitchy
The Age
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 (Australia)
ART market jitters continued last night with more than half of the works on auction at Bonhams and Goodman in Prahran failing to sell. But buyer interest in quality remained high, with Bonhams setting records for six artists.

Tea Tree Gully Council bans nude art
The Adelaide Advertiser
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 (Australia)
NUDES were good enough for Da Vinci, Michelangelo and Rubens - but Tea Tree Gully Council has decided the naked human form is too offensive for its annual art competition.

Sculpting the Barossa
The Adelaide Advertiser
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 (Australia)
THE Barossa Valley's famous sculpture park is to double its sculptural content.

Fringe ticket sales fall by 10%
BBC News
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 (United Kingdom)
Ticket sales at this year's Edinburgh Fringe were down by almost 10% - the first fall in eight years.

Casting Asia as a player in the A-list art game
International Herald Tribune
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 (Singapore)
Asian contemporary art has seen its star rise markedly in recent years. Yet the region has yet to produce art fairs to rival those in the West like Art Basel in Switzerland, Frieze Art Fair in London, the Armory Show in New York and Art Basel Miami Beach.

Mortier hopes to run both NYC Opera and Bayreuth
Yahoo! News
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 (USA)
Gerard Mortier says his application to run the Bayreuth Festival in Germany will not change his plans to run the New York City Opera starting with the 2009-10 season.